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Bridgepoint volunteer program given boost Manulife enters into five-year partnership with Riverdale rehabilitation hospital JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com

Nicole Boivin, chief branding and communications officer at Manulife Financial, called the partnership an opportunity for her company to make a significant contribution to “groundbreaking volunteerism research” as well as “broad sharing of new ideas and practices” Manulife feels will help build capacity in the healthcare sector.

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ridgepoint Health and Manulife Financial have recently entered into a fiveyear, $500,000 partnership with the goal of enhancing the local hospital’s volunteer programs.

The overall aim of the initiative is to come up with ways to engage volunteers in an effort to support the highest quality patient care, a need that is especially great in recent years as the Canadian healthcare system grapples with an aging population, chronic disease and system sustainability.

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Benefit society “We are very pleased to be entering this partnership with Manulife Financial to help support leadership in the volunteer arena,” said Marian Walsh, Bridgepoint Health’s president and CEO, in a release.

“By producing a comprehensive, multi-faceted examination of the new face of healthcare volunteerism, the knowledge Bridgepoint has developed in this area can be put in to active service to benefit society.”

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Bridgepoint Health patient Meta Tipple, left, spends some time with youth volunteer Angeline Brondial.

Walsh went on to say the funding would also allow the Riverdale-area hospital for

patients with complex chronic disease and disability to develop best practices for its volunteer

programs as well as disseminate that information at the local, national and international levels.

“We’re proud to partner with Bridgepoint Health on this initiative,” she said.

This new partnership will specifically entail new and expanded volunteer roles with patients and families within Bridgepoint Health and beyond.

It will also offer opportunities for volunteers to participate in data collection for Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation (BCRI) research projects through a new “citizen scientist” program.

As well there will be education programs for hospital staff to ensure the optimal use of volunteers’ time and talents; and research by the BCRI to assess and develop new roles for volunteer engagement.

Leslieville resident wins tenant leadership award JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com East Toronto resident Leslie Cringan will be forever grateful to WoodGreen Community Services for providing her with a safe, secure and affordable place to live during a challenging time in her life.

“WoodGreen was there to offer me support and housing and they really gave me a hand up,” said Cringan, a Toronto native who has lived in Leslieville for the last four years.

“I really wanted to give back what was so freely given to me.”

Over the past four years, Cringan has given of her time to better her community.

Starting off small, she partnered with a fellow tenant in her WoodGreen housing complex to create a safe and secure committee.

“From there other committees grew,” Cringan said.

In recent years, she’s helped plan Neighbours Night Out

events and has organized monthly eat ‘n’ greet dinners for her fellow tenants among countless other things.

She tries to help out where she can as both a WoodGreen tenant and a member of the Leslieville community and said she is excited when others are inspired by her work.

“When you get the spark going, it really grows. Each year the involvement grows with the neighbours and fellow tenants,” said Cringan, who is now studying at George Brown College with the goal of completing the assaulted women and children’s program and community engagement program. “Because of volunteering in the community, many doors have opened. Community has always been very important to me.”

Recently, Cringan received a Te n a n t A c h i e v e m e n t Recognition Award from the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association (ONPHA), the voice of non-profit housing in Ontario, for her commitment

to tenant leadership.

She learned of her win in late June.

“I was quite honoured. When I was nominated I really didn’t expect to win this award,” said Cringan, crediting the staff at WoodGreen for their ongoing support and encouragement. part of a team “I feel I’m part of a team. For me, there’s a job that needs to be done and I just sort of do it. It’s truly an honour to have won this award.”

Angela Cook, vice-president of housing and facilities for the east-end social service agency, said Cringan is more than deserving of the honour.

“She’s an extremely committed individual who likes to participate in the community and try to improve the living environment for not only herself, but also for her fellow resident,” said Cook, calling Cringan a great example for other tenants. “We actively

encourage our residents to volunteer and participate in the communities in which they reside. We’re extremely proud of the work Leslie is doing and this award is a nice way to recognize that.”

Cook said the honour is especially meaningful as WoodGreen, which nominated Cringan for the award, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

“Volunteering is an integral part of what we’re all about and Leslie is a great reflection of that. We’d like to congratulate and thank Leslie for all the hard work in the community,” she said.

John Wilson, an ONPHA spokesperson, said Cringan is an ideal recipient. “Leslie was selected for this award because of her hard work building and strengthening relationships,” he wrote in a recent email.

“She’s been a champion, Photo/COURTESY resource, role model and friend to her fellow tenants and staff East Toronto resident Leslie Cringan received a Tenant and her hard work has paid Achievement Recognition Award from the Ontario Nonoff.”

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here is an infinite number ways to improve and progress our communities.

The secret is to actually get out and do it.

Your actions don’t have to be big. They don’t have to be time-consuming. They don’t need to command the spotlight – although some are very public. To borrow a phrase, just do it.

In today’s newspaper we’ve compiled a simple list of possibilities.

A few meetings. Some great phone conversations with community members – it wasn’t hard to find 50 ways to improve our community.

These thoughts, of course, are only a sample. If you visit bit.ly/TCN_50ways, you’ll see the 50 ways as expressed in each of our nine community newspaper neighbourhoods throughout Toronto.

We think the more information you have about your community the better.

Your Beach Mirror reaches our view 21,600 homes. And the website, www.beachmirror.com, reaches See pages 10 & many more community mem11 for a list of bers. It’s been a year where our Facebook and Twitter feeds ways to help have had a more prominent role in our quest to provide you news and information about your community in a format you desire.

We are dedicated to the betterment of the Beach and we sponsor many community events.

It’s all meant to give you increased access to community information and to grow community involvement and commitment.

The Beach isn’t Scarborough. It isn’t North York. It isn’t Parkdale. There is of course common interest for all communities that make up Toronto. But there’s a deep richness of community life and spirit that is uniquely Beach in flavour.

We encourage everyone to become deeply involved in your community. And share your stories, thoughts, projects and objectives with us. We love to share them with our readers.

The sheer act of being a resident means you are a community owner. That means you are responsible for the upkeep, the health and wellness and the profile of where you live. We are all community builders.

Thanks to all those community groups who participated in this project. We look forward to your feedback and future ideas on building a better Beach.

As always, we encourage you to share your thoughts with us. And we wish you all a safe and festive weekend as we inch closer to 2013.

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The city has begun to install electronic water meters, which will transmit water use data wireless every few hours through some type of antennae installed for the purpose.

Why not transmit such data once a month or every three months?

Such convenience for the city bureaucracy brings a convenient but intrusive use of technology right into our homes.

I am worried about the health and safety aspects of ever-growing electromagnetic radiation.

There are pregnant moms and babies in the households.

They are exposed to such radiation all for the convenience of city bureaucracy.

We have heard enough about radiation from cellphones and now we add more of it to the ever growing load of harmful radiation that we are being exposed to in our daily living environment.

This kind of pollution is not welcome.

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Mayor’s fate will impact council in coming year For city hall columnists, the late-December spot in the paper is customarily reserved for a look forward at the coming year at council.

And if this were more ordinary times, it would be fairly easy to predict some things.

One might write about how council will make a decision on whether to invite a casino resort complex into the city’s downtown or how the city will come to terms with the need to fund transit infrastructure at the expense of funding services to the community, or vice versa.

For 2013, though, much of what comes to pass will hinge on what happens in the days following Jan. 7, in the matter of Mayor Rob Ford’s appeal of a judicial order demanding he be removed from office.

If the decision is upheld, the repercussions are seismic.

They are also unpredictable.

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Council will have an immediate decision to make within two months of the decision: whether to hold a byelection for the office of mayor, or appoint a new mayor for the remainder of the term.

Should council appoint, it will have to decide what direction it actually intends to take.

Ford has spent the past two years attempting to fulfill a right-wing agenda at city hall – and has had some success in doing so.

But council has not consistently shared that view, frequently rebuffing Ford’s more controversial initiatives.

Usually when council considers appointing for a vacancy, there is some effort to make sure the appointee reflects the politics of the person they’re replacing.

Under this council, that rule of thumb may or may not apply.

It is up in the air.

And that goes double for the public. Ford was elected as a clear leader of the pack, and in the past, voters have been notably forgiving of the mayor’s many personal foibles.

If there’s a byelection, Ford has every right to run in it and at least as of late this month, every intention of doing so, and given history – a very good possibility, all things considered, of being elected.

As does federal New Democrat MP and former city councillor Olivia Chow if she decides to run for mayor.

So once again: in 2013, anything goes.

One thing we can predict, or at least observe, about 2013: in the next year, Toronto Council is going to have to finish the messy process of growing up and learning how to govern itself.

It’s done well enough so far, coalescing around what its members deemed unacceptable cuts in the 2012 budget, and solidifying around a consensus in favour of light rail compared to the mayor’s vision of a Scarborough subway.

But next year, the challenges will be big: council will have the city of the future in its hands like it never has before.

Alternatively, if things go differently on Jan. 7, council will have to learn to work with this mayor again.

Either way – 2013 is a great big unknown.

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Packing boxes for Christmas Busy elves: Below, volunteers sort and pack donation items for Community Centre 55’s Share-A-Christmas hamper program Dec. 18 at the Main Street centre. The hampers of perishable and non-perishable food, toys and pet food will be distributed to the more than 800 families in the community who need a little extra help over the holidays. Right, Jean Jones, left, Bob Jones, Judith Kennedy, Tom Nailor and Andree Hovington help build the boxes during the event. Below right, a human chain of volunteers move donations during sorting and packing.

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Look at birds and trees during Dec. 29 walk NEWS IN BRIEF The Toronto Field Naturalists are hosting a walk about the trees and birds of Ashbridges Bay Saturday, Dec. 29.

The tour, lead by Bob Kortright, will get underway at 1:30 p.m.

Those interested in taking part should meet at the southwest corner of Coxwell Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard East.

The walk will wrap up at the Woodbine bus stop at the foot of Northern Dancer Boulevard.

People should bring binoculars and a snack, and wear layered clothing and non-slip boots. A thermos with a hot drink is also a good idea.

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Motivated by the Scouts’ Promise of making wise use of resources, four adults and seven youth members of a local scouting group are collecting reusable and recyclable items to help fund their airfare to Alberta this summer for the organization’s 13th annual Canadian Jamboree.

The 236th Toronto Scout Group, which meets at Holy Name Church near Danforth and Pape avenues, is asking people to donate old washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, stoves and computer hard drives as well as items made of steel, copper, lead and aluminum. They’re also looking for donations of pop cans and beer/wine bottles.

Anyone from the Beach or East York area interested in donating their unwanted items should email Bob Taylor at bob@236toronto.com to arrange to have the goods picked up.

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asked to send a snapshot of the items they’d like to contribute.

n Jan. 1 hike

Take a hike at the Leslie Street Spit Tuesday, Jan. 1.

Hosted by the Toronto Bruce Trail Club, the 12-kilometre walk will begin at 1 p.m. Participants should meet at the park’s front gate.

While the hike is free, donations to the Niagara Escarpment Fund are welcome.

The Leslie Street Spit, which is also known as Tommy Thompson Park, is at the foot of Leslie Street.

Call 416-763-9061 or visit www.torontobrucetrailclub. org for details.

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Start the New Year right by taking part in the Balmy Beach Canoe Club’s 33rd annual Hair of the Dog Fun Run/Walk.

The three-kilometre walk is set to start on New Year’s Day at 11:30 a.m., while the nine-kilometre run portion of the event begins at noon.

On-site registration starts at 10:30 a.m.

The event costs $30 for adults, while youth/children under 16 pay $10.

Families with two adults

and children under 16 pay a flat rate of $60.

A $10 hot lunch will be available after the run/walk.

The Balmy Beach Club is at the foot of Beech Avenue.

Visit www.balmybeachcanoe.com or call 416-463-4643 for details or to register.

n Regency Christmas

Todmorden Mills Heritage Site is holding Regency Christmas in the Valley over the holidays.

The simple pleasures and decor of a Regency-era Christmas are on display at Todmorden Millsin the early 19th-century historic homes, which are decorated traditionally for the season with real evergreen garlands as well as the “kissing bough” hanging in the Helliwell parlour, complete with apples, candles and mistletoe.

Sample period festive desserts such as: Whim-Wham and Hedgehog Tipsy Cake.

Families can also make Regency-style Christmas decorations as a take-home craft. Visit the site: Dec. 27 to Dec. 30 from noon to 4 p.m.; Dec. 31 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and Jan. 2 to Sunday, Jan. 6 from noon to 4 p.m.

Todmorden Mills Heritage Site is at 67 Pottery Rd. Call 416-396-2819.

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Support or start a local community garden.

Help maintain a local outdoor skating rink. Volunteers are always needed. Contact the offices of councillors MaryMargaret McMahon (416392-1376) or Paula Fletcher (416-392-4060) for details.

For a list of rinks in your neighbourhood, visit http:// bit.ly/URhzOL

Get involved in the Amnesty International group, which meets the second Tuesday of the month at St. John the Baptist Norway Church, 470 Woodbine Ave. Email beachamnesty@gmail.com

Check out and patronize your local farmers m a r k e t . There are several in the city’s east end.

Support the Out of the Cold program at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church in the Beach.

Call 416-691-2222.

Give a gift of your time to local charities such as the Rotary Club of Toronto Beach – www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/ Home.aspx?accountid=1154 – or the Beaches Lions Club of Toronto – www.beacheslions. com

Make a monetary donation to Emily’s House, Toronto’s first children’s hospice set to open in Riverdale in the spring.

Visit www.philipazizcentre. ca/childrens-hospice

Help Nellie’s Shelter for Women and Children in Riverdale by making a donation of goods or funds, volunteering your time or expertise to help support the women and/or by keeping women and children’s issues alive and a priority for elected officials. Email community@nellies.org or 416461-8903

Get involved in your community and meet your neighbours by attending meetings and events hosted by your local residents association.

Become a volunteer coach or sponsor a team in one of the many youth sports leagues in the community.

WoodGreen Community Services, a 75-year-old east end social service agency, could also use your help in the year to come. To make a donation to the WoodGreen Foundation please contact Ann Rosenfiel at arosenfield@woodgreen.org. The organization is also in need of people to volunteer in areas like delivering Meals on Wheels to seniors, helping newcomers navigate the job market and much more!

Contact Steve Vanderherberg at svanderherberg@ woodgreen.org to help out.

Change a child’s life by becoming a foster parent.

Call the Homes for Kids hotline at 1-877-567-KIDS for details.

Support literacy by tutoring in basic reading, writing and math at your local library. Call 416-395-5555.

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Donate to the Newsgirls Boxing Club’s Shape Your Life program, a Leslieville-based initiative that helps female and transgender survivors of violence empower themselves and gain self-esteem through the sport of boxing.

Visit www.torontonewsgirls. com or 416-480-2058.

COMMUNITY, YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

Explore solar water and heating options for your home.

There are several incentives available.

Volunteer or donate to the Inter-Faith Lunch, a drop-in program that takes place at different churches in the Beach throughout the week from October to May and offers a nutritious meal and fellowship to low income people, the homeless or anyone who is hungry. Visit beachunitedchurch.com/food/interfaithlunch-program

Find out what your community is doing for Earth Day and how to get involved.

Participate in a Terry Fox walk/run in September. Visit http://www.terryfox.org/ Run/Ontario.html for details.

Properly dispose of cigarette butts.

Protect, regenerate and celebrate your local watershed.

Visit http://trca.on.ca/watershed-champion

Make your community a cleaner place by picking up after your pet and throwing garbage in trash bins while at local beaches.

Help a senior shovel her driveway or carry groceries.

Support your local business community by shopping local for gifts throughout the year.

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Check out an art gallery or a play and support homegrown talent and neighbourhood venues that foster it.

Get involved in helping research the history of commercial buildings along Queen Street East in Riverside for a future local Heritage Conservation District. Call or email Councillor Paula Fletcher’s office at 416-3924060 or councillor_fletcher@ toronto.ca

Donate your time or cash to a breakfast program at an area school.

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Join one of the many “Friends of” park stewardship groups in Wards 30 and 32.

Join 55 Division’s Community Police Liaison Committee and help make the city’s east end a safer place to live work and play. Call 416-808-5500.

Donate to an animal in need.

Toronto Animal Services is looking for items like dog biscuits, leashes and collars, cat treats, scratching posts and cat harnesses. Visit www. toronto.ca/animal_services/ pet_donations.htm

Start a walking or running club in your neighbourhood

Share the road with cyclists.

Join the East Toronto Climate Action Group, a group of area residents concerned about smog, climate change and other environmental issues and their impact on the city and the community. Visit www.etcag.org

Support Riverdale’s Bridgepoint Health hospital by donating your time as a volunteer, 416-461-8252, ext. 2076 or volunteering@ bridgepointhealth.ca

Become a mentor for young women at Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre’s SISTA program. Email Devin Fan at dfan@toronto.ca

Give blood: visit www.blood. ca to find a clinic.

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Join a committee with the Gerrard East Community Organization, an organization in Little India that brings together merchants, community services, artists and families of Gerrard Street East to celebrate their diverse and vibrant cultures. Contact Juanita Morris at juanita. morris@rogers.com

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Donate or volunteer at the Grace Pascoe Care Centre, which provides food, clothing and advocacy for less fortunate residents, Visit http:// calvary-baptist-church.ca/ grace-pascoecare-centre

Buy coffee for the next person in line.

Organize a block party to meet neighbours.

Help students with their homework at an after-school newcomer hub at your local library branch. Email afterschool@ torontopubliclibrary.ca

Hold the door open for people behind you.

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Nellie’s Shelter for Women and Children Development Manager Wendy Sung-Aad, left, and executive director Margarita Mendez survey some of the gift packages that were distributed to nearly 300 less fortunate children in the community as well as to the 36 women and 28 children at its Riverdale-area shelter this Christmas.

Bettering the area in 2013 Helping each other key to great neighbourhoods

JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Give up your seat on the transit system for someone who needs it.

Lend a hand with Habitat for Humanity Toronto at a build site or at the ReStore location on Carlaw Avenue, just north of Lake Shore Boulevard East.

Visit www.torontohabitat.ca/ volunteer.html

Swap plastic forks and paper plates for reusable cutlery and food containers.

Host a Yard Sale for The Cure at your home. The annual event, which raises funds for breast cancer research, takes place every May across Canada. Visit www.yardsaleforthecure.com. The event’s founder, Rachael Smith, is a Beach resident.

Fill out an online form at www.salvationarmy.ca/volunteer to connect with the Salvation Army volunteer coordinator in your area.

Honour Canada’s veterans at a Remembrance Day service in November. Visit www.toronto.ca/ lestweforget/ remembrancecity.htm for a service near you.

Contact your local school to become a volunteer mentor.

Contact LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests www.yourleaf.org/) and arrange to get a free tree planted in your backyard.

■ What are your ideas for making The Beach a great place to live? Let us know at letters@insidetoronto.com

The journey to bettering the community in 2013 doesn’t have to be an insurmountable or intimidating task.

It just takes a steadfast commitment to respecting one another and a desire for a better future for all.

“I think these days we have so many big problems now. I feel people are feeling overwhelmed,” said Wendy SungAad, development manager at Nellie’s Shelter for Women and Children in Riverdale.

“I think it’s really important in the new year for everyone to take a breath and remember you can contribute in your own way.”

Sung-Aad said bettering one’s community can be as simple as being a bit kinder like looking people in the eye as you pass them on the street.

“It’s all about connecting on a personal level. Just that is a contribution,” she said.

And while worthy organizations such as Nellie’s always appreciate those who donate funds and/or volunteer their time, Sung-Aad said it’s especially important we talk, listen and connect with each other.

Like Sung-Aad, Sister Gwen Smith, director of Riverside’s Mustard Seed outreach centre, spoke about the transformational powers of kindness.

“Smiling and saying hello as you pass people on the street can make all the difference,” she said, adding taking ownership

‘Every time you attend local bake sales, craft fairs, or garage sales or school fundraisers you are helping your neighbours, and by helping our neighbours is how we build strong communities.’

Little India-area resident Susana Molinolo of one’s community can begin with supporting local charities, even if it’s in a small way.

“Get involved, get out in your community,” she said, crediting local merchants and restaurateurs for doing their part to better the community by supporting local charitable groups and beautifying the neighbourhood.

For Susana Molinolo, a Little India-area mother and wife and an engaged Torontonian, the one thing she said helps improve communities is when people pick a cause that is near and dear to their hearts and commit to it for the long run.

“For example, you might want to clean and revitalize a local park. Know that you can’t do

it alone, and that the changes won’t happen overnight,” Molinolo said.

“Enlist the help of family, friends, neighbours and your local councillor and host cleanup days, movie-in-the-park nights, picnics, and, yes, even more days of simply picking up other people’s garbage.”

Molinolo said the road might not be easy but in the long run it will all be worth it.

“Don’t despair. Just know it takes a village and years and years of love of nurturing, and eventually you will begin to see change,” she wrote in an email to The Mirror.

“Another powerful thing to do is sign petitions, write to your local political representatives... to tell them what’s important to you and your neighbours – i.e. save our pool, save our community centres, save our libraries.”

Molinolo, who created the Cupcakes 4 Haiti campaign to raise funds for the hurricaneravaged Caribbean nation, said another way to better communities on macro and micro levels is to shop local.

“It empowers the community because it is a wonderful way to engage with your shopowner neighbours, and because you can walk instead of drive.

Every time you attend local bake sales, craft fairs, or garage sales or school fundraisers you are helping your neighbours, and by helping our neighbours is how we build strong communities.”

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Health

Family raises money for childhood cancer JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com Even before eight-year-old Lilah Petersiel was born, her parents knew the youngster was set to face a tough road.

The Petersiels knew from ultrasounds she was going to have only one kidney, but on the day she was born, the Petersiels got some more bad news.

“She had an ultrasound and when the G.P. read the results, he said ‘the kidney’s fine, but there’s something else here and it’s something I can’t treat here.’” said Lilah’s father, Eric Petersiel.

She was transferred to the Hospital for Sick Children and within two weeks she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma – an aggressive cancer most common among young children – and had surgery to remove a tumour from her

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Lilah Fund raises money for neuroblastoma research.

adrenal gland.

A few months later, a routine CT scan showed she had early stage liver cancer and Lilah underwent additional surgery to remove part of the organ and eight months of chemotherapy.

“We’re so thankful that we had SickKids to take care of our daughter and our family,”

Petersiel said. “It was quite an ordeal, but we were incredibly lucky to have this institution in our community.”

While Lilah has shown no evidence of cancer for years – the family celebrated her eighth anniversary with no evidence of disease Dec. 8 – the Petersiels have not forgotten the care she received while at SickKids. The Forest Hill family started Lilah’s Fund (www.lilahsfund.com), which has raised some $700,000 in funds to help neuroblastoma research.

Money raised through Lilah’s Fund goes directly to SickKids to fuel research into childhood cancers. “It’s amazing to me that they have the world’s leading scientists and clinicians (at SickKids),” Petersiel said. “They are literally on the edge of breaking through and finding out so much more about the sources and cures for kids’ cancer.”

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Beach residents less likely to be screened for cancers Residents in Beach are less likely to get screened for cancers than the average Ontario resident.

Cancer Care Ontario is hoping to change that.

The Ontario government agency has launched a program called Time to Screen for all residents in the province, with a particular emphasis on areas that fall below provincial averages.

The campaign is a call to action to get at least 100,000 more Ontario residents screened for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer in the next six months.

Women in the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), which oversees health planning for a section of Toronto that includes York, part of North York, East York and Beach, are less likely to be screened for breast cancer than the average woman in Ontario.

In 2009/10, 67 per cent of Ontario women aged 50 to 69

had a mammography.

That compares with 60 per cent of women in the Toronto Central area.

Women aged 50 to 74 should have a mammogram every two years, Cancer Care Ontario said.

Cervical cancer Residents in the region were also slightly less likely to be screened for cervical and colorectal cancers than the provincial average.

Seventy per cent of women in Toronto Central were screened for cervical cancer in 2009/10, compared to the provincial average of 72 per cent.

Cancer Care Ontario advises women aged 21 to 70 to have a Pap test to screen for cervical cancer every two years.

The provincial average for colorectal cancer screening in 2009/10 was 52 per cent for Ontario residents aged 50 to 74, compared to 51 per cent

in Toronto Central.

People in that age group should be tested for colorectal cancer every two years, Cancer Care Ontario said.

“There is strong evidence that screening for colorectal, breast and cervical cancers can reduce mortality,” Dr. Lisa DelGiudice, regional care primary lead for the Toronto Central LHIN’s cancer central program, said in a statement. “That’s why we have launched this call to action to encourage all Ontarians to get screened regularly.”

Screening can save lives.

Between 1990 and 2008, breast cancer death rates fell by 37 per cent, which the agency said may be the result of better treatments and more women having mammographies. Cervical cancer is almost entirely preventable with regular Pap tests and HPV immunizations and when caught early, there is a 90 per cent chance people with colorectal cancer will be cured.

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